ARC Raiders
GameBy Embark Studios
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Monthly Ranking: January 2026
The January 2026 industry analysis highlights the continued market dominance of ARC Raiders, which secured the top position for both revenue and volume on Steam for the third consecutive month.
- For the third consecutive month, ARC Raiders remained the top-selling title across Xbox, PlayStation, and Steam, reaching 10 million monthly active users in January 2026, an 8% increase over December.
- ARC Raiders is currently outpacing Battlefield 6 in launch-aligned player counts, with 27.2% of its November 2025 Steam wishlisters converting into purchasers as of early February 2026.
- Low-cost co-op titles continue to drive high volume, with PEAK (1.3 million units), R.E.P.O. (1.1 million units), and RV There Yet? (752K units) collectively generating nearly $300 million in revenue since their 2025 launches.
Top Games on Live Streaming for 2025
The 2025 live-streaming landscape was characterized by the continued dominance of established intellectual properties, even as the industry faced significant internal challenges such as widespread developer layoffs.
- League of Legends maintained the top spot in live-streaming viewership with 1.95 billion hours watched, reflecting a 4% year-over-year growth.
- First-person shooters dominated the genre landscape with 4.6 billion total hours watched, with Counter-Strike alone accounting for 28% of that figure.
- ARC Raiders was the most successful 2025 launch title, generating 129 million hours watched within its first 30 days.
The Steam Games That Sold the Most Copies Over the Holidays
Steam experienced a record-breaking December in 2025, generating $1.6 billion in gross revenue from over 100 million players.
- Steam generated $1.6 billion in gross revenue during December 2025, marking a 22.7% increase over December 2024 and surpassing the previous record set in December 2020.
- ARC Raiders led Steam sales between December 21 and January 4 with 1.2 million copies sold, contributing to the title reaching 12 million total copies sold and 7 million on Steam.
- Detroit: Become Human shifted 993,000 copies during the holiday period, driven by a record-low price of $4 that helped the title surpass $150 million in total Steam revenue.
November 2025's Top New Steam Games Revealed
This analysis examines the performance of new video game releases on Steam and major console platforms during November 2025.
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is underperforming significantly, with sales metrics showing a decline of more than 50% compared to its predecessor.
- The shooter genre is experiencing intense competition, as titles like ARC Raiders and Battlefield 6 draw player counts away from established franchises.
- November 2025 saw a cooling market trend characterized by a lack of high-volume breakout hits compared to the performance levels seen in October.
November's Best-Selling Steam Games
The November 2025 market analysis identifies the top-performing titles on Steam, highlighting a significant trend toward independent game dominance.
- ARC Raiders was the top-selling Steam game in November, moving 3.5 million copies and reaching 7.7 million total units sold across all platforms to date.
- The indie title RV There Yet? sold 1.1 million copies in November, bringing its total sales to over 4 million units, driven largely by streamer engagement and a low $7.99 price point.
- Escape from Duckov outperformed the Steam release of Escape from Tarkov, selling 3 million copies and generating $38 million in revenue in 17 days, compared to Tarkov's 400,000 units and $14 million in revenue over the same period.
How The Last Caretaker Journeyed to >100k Early Access Sales in a Month
The survival-crafting title The Last Caretaker achieved significant commercial success during its initial month of Early Access, selling over 120,000 copies.
- Channel37's 'The Last Caretaker' sold over 120,000 units in its first month of Early Access, launching on November 6, 2025, at a $35 price point.
- The title achieved high player satisfaction with a 5.6% refund rate and a median playtime exceeding 15 hours, despite the technical limitations typical of an Early Access release.
- The game maintained strong engagement with a peak of 10,000 concurrent users and a sustained base of 5,000 concurrent users weeks after launch.
Alinea Analytics: Our Most Requested Estimates
Alinea Analytics provides market intelligence for the video game industry, focusing on sales and engagement estimates across PC, PlayStation, and Xbox platforms.
- Alinea Analytics maintains a 10% margin of error for PC sales estimates based on an analysis of 754 publicly reported milestones.
- Recent accuracy checks against publisher-reported figures show high precision, including a 0.1% variance for Nexon's 'ARC Raiders' (4M reported) and a 0.2% variance for CD Projekt's 'Cyberpunk 2077' (35M reported).
- Bloodborne has reached 16M total players, with 9.3M copies sold on PlayStation and nearly 7M additional users accessing the title via PlayStation Plus.
ARC Raiders Dominated Steam Again Last Week, but Indies Also Crushed It
ARC Raiders maintained its position as the top-selling title on Steam for the fourth consecutive week, moving approximately 750,000 copies and generating $25 million in revenue.
- ARC Raiders remained Steam’s top-selling game for the fourth consecutive week, moving 750,000 copies for $25 million in revenue and reaching 4 million total units sold on the platform.
- PEAK is nearing 15 million total copies sold after shifting 316,000 units last week, driven by a strategy that combined a price cut to $4.95 with a free content update to maximize visibility on Steam charts.
- The indie title RV There Yet? sold 312,000 copies last week, capitalizing on the 'friendslop' trend of physics-based co-op gameplay to reach nearly 4 million total sales.
ARC Raiders Has Sold 2.5M Copies
The extraction shooter ARC Raiders achieved significant commercial success following its October 30, 2025, launch, selling 2.5 million copies and generating over $100 million in revenue within its first week.
- Embark Studios' ARC Raiders has reached 2.5 million copies sold, with the majority of the player base on Steam (1.7 million or 69.2%), followed by PlayStation (400K+ or 17.3%) and Xbox (300K+ or 13.5%).
- The decision to launch ARC Raiders as a premium paid title rather than free-to-play has proven successful, with the upfront cost contributing to higher player retention and commitment.
- ARC Raiders differentiates itself in the extraction shooter genre by emphasizing cooperative gameplay and social interaction, which has helped lower the barrier to entry compared to more punishing titles like Tarkov.
October 2025's Top New Steam & Console Games Revealed
The October 2025 market analysis provides a comprehensive overview of video game performance across Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo platforms.
- Battlefield 6 dominated the October 2025 market, selling 12 million units globally, including 7 million units on Steam alone.
- Nintendo’s Switch 2 achieved a strong launch with 10.36 million units sold by the end of September, supported by a 92% attach rate for Mario Kart World.
- Ghost of Yotei performed as a major console title with 2.7 million units sold, while the extraction shooter ARC Raiders grossed $55 million from 1.5 million units.
Steam's Top 5 Most Wishlisted 2025 Games
The analysis identifies the five most wishlisted games on Steam for 2025, highlighting the correlation between high pre-launch wishlist counts and successful commercial performance.
- Hollow Knight: Silksong currently leads all 2025 releases on Steam with 4.8 million wishlists, driven by high community engagement despite a sparse marketing cycle.
- ARC Raiders, developed by Embark Studios, holds the third position on the 2025 Steam wishlist chart with 2.5 million wishlists ahead of its October 30 launch.
- Dying Light: The Beast and Borderlands 4 round out the top five most-wishlisted 2025 games with 2.3 million and 1.8 million wishlists, respectively.
ARC Raiders and Extraction Shooters on Live Streaming
Extraction shooters have emerged as a dominant and highly competitive subgenre within the live-streaming landscape, characterized by high-stakes gameplay loops focused on looting and survival.
- Embark Studios' ARC Raiders generated 8.8 million hours watched during its five-day tech test in early May 2025, despite having only 63,000 hours of airtime.
- Strategic partnerships with top streamers like shroud and LIRIK, who distributed beta keys, accounted for approximately 16% of the total viewership for the ARC Raiders tech test.
- The extraction shooter subgenre is highly competitive, with established titles like Escape from Tarkov reaching peaks of 121 million monthly hours watched and others like Arena Breakout: Infinite hitting 16.5 million.
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